The prosecutor’s office is asking for 21 years in prison for the man who allegedly killed his father in his home on July 1, 2020 in the town of Los Abrigos, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona. The first session of the trial with the Jury Court to be held in the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will take place on Friday of the next week of March 17.
The person involved in this violent death arrived in Tenerife shortly before the tragic event from Estepona (Málaga), where he lived with his mother. The object was to spend time with his father, who had a residence in the coastal town of Los Abrigos. This British citizen owned his business and wanted his son to work with him for a while.
However, father and son had an argument over domestic issues at the former’s home. According to the information collected by the Territorial Team of the Judicial Guard of the Southern Civil Guard of Tenerife and the Crimes Against Persons Team of the said body, the Defendant, who continued to be angry with his father, the following day with With the intention of ending his life, he picked up a knife 15 centimeters long and about four centimeters wide.
The victim having no opportunity to defend himself, the perpetrator allegedly stabbed him 54 times, seven in the neck and chest, four in the left arm, and 43 in the back. These last stab wounds were written when the victim was lying defenseless on the ground, prone, with no possibility of defense or safety. In this way, according to the prosecutor’s absolute document, the suffering of the dying victim was unduly increased.
The defendant was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 18 and had a recognized mental disability of 67 percent. Years before the alleged assault on her father, she was treated by the Unit of the University of the Virgin of La Victoria Hospital of the University of the Virgin of La Victoria, in Estepona. In fact, months before he arrived in Tenerife, on the suspicion of decompensation of his psychotic pathology, the patient was prescribed an increase in the dose of the drug.
According to forensic experts of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, at the time of the murder, the alleged perpetrator could have suffered “some psychiatric decompensation that could have affected”, at least slightly, his ability to understand. to act against the law and to act according to understanding.
The Public Ministry also demands that the other two children of the victim, who live in Britain, be compensated with 300,000 cash from the accused.
In the role of the prosecutor, in this case of domestic violence some aggravating circumstance of kinship as well as a modifying circumstance of the criminal duty of mental alteration.
